Immersion and Entanglement at the End of the World In this performative and wide ranging talk, artist Duncan Speakman will explore how immersive and augmented artworks might offer new ways to...
Archive/Counter-Archive Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada’s Moving Image Heritage is a research-creation partnership led by Janine Marchessault involving over twenty archival organizations and cultural repositories for AV and other media in Canada. This project...
[caption id="attachment_19939" align="alignleft" width="612"] Photo by Sébastien Roy[/caption] How can we document the very process of curating digital archives and databases? How can we frame their evolution, and define what type...
XR and African Space Makers: Economic, Cultural, and Political Perspectives In this talk, BlackRhino VR Co-Founder and African XR pioneer Brian Afande will discuss the status of the African XR ecosystem and the process behind international...
Mapping Blackness by ODL Fellow Carla Bishop is an immersive geo-locative digital archive. This platform integrates geotagging, AR, 360 video, and traditional documentary storytelling to document and archive the histories, stories,...
By Ambar Reyes This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Prison X” Each year, IndieWire partners with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab to offer a deeper look at Sundance’s New Frontier section. Here, Ambar Reyes explores two projects that tackled...
By Srushti Kamat This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Beyond the Breakdown” Editor’s note: Each year, IndieWire collaborates with MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program by inviting students to reflect on Sundance’s New Frontier program. Sundance’s New Frontiers’ team...
I Come From Giants (working title) is a short memoir in virtual reality by ODL Fellow Cindy Bishop. On the back of the common chicken, the human population has thrived in...
Territories of Exclusion by ODL Fellow Gabriel Vieira Posada is a project that will utilize participatory exploration to make visible the child trafficking networks in the public spaces of Medellín, Colombia, through digital...
Meshmemories is an augmented reality portrait by ODL Fellow Fabiano Mixo. Below is the project treatment. Imagine a face of woman fluctuating in space. She is still and stares at the...